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author | Tilman Keskinoz <arved@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-01-08 11:50:14 +0000 |
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committer | Tilman Keskinoz <arved@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-01-08 11:50:14 +0000 |
commit | 6a471b8256a4be30465b8b6637d4daffada67ad9 (patch) | |
tree | f53221d5745a05043c87621cd229d3783b70eec1 /sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr | |
parent | Fix Port after postgres update (diff) |
Add spinner, a small util that draws a spinning ASCII character to keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity.
PR: 46289
Submitted by: Michael L. Hostbaek <mich@freebsdcluster.org>
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=72735
Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr')
-rw-r--r-- | sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..177f70f892bb --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Spinner is a small program that displays a little "spinning" ASCII +character in the top left corner of your terminal. To make this effect +it cycles through punctuation marks like this " - \ | / - \ | / ... " +(try it to see). By default the character is drawn in inverse video +(or your terminal's equivalent). But you can turn this off with the -i +switch. It supports any terminal capable of handling VT100 style escape codes. + +Spinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to +inactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections when they are +perceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly +sending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection. +Thus (for search engines) Spinner is an anti-dle, timeout preventing, +background daemon process for unix variants including linux. + +WWW: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html + + - Michael L. Hostbaek + mich@freebsdcluster.org |